The Origin of Buddhist Meditation by Wynne Alexander

Author:Wynne, Alexander
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2011-10-21T16:00:00+00:00

In these two explanations sītisiyā is interpreted as ‘become eternal’ (sassato) or ‘final emancipation’ (parinibbāna) respectively. In both cases the concept of ‘becoming cool’ seems to refer to the death of the person who is in the sphere of nothingness. But these explanations are unacceptable: pāda (d) is not an alternative to pāda (c), but a question based upon the condition expressed in pāda (c); this is how Norman understands it, and on this point he is surely correct. The explanation of Pj II is just as confusing. At the end of its explanation it comments:

Then the Blessed One, not admitting [the possible explanations of] annihilation or eternalism for him, explaining the final (parinibbānaṃ) emancipation without clinging of the noble disciple, spoke the verse beginning ‘As a flame…’ [v.1074].50

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